Things are never as bad as they seem.
Things added to things, as statistics, civil history, are inventories. Things used as language are inexhaustibly attractive.
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
The real tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self-denial. Beautiful sins, like beautiful things, are the privilege of the rich.
The order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of things.
The body is affected by the image of the thing, in the same way as if the thing were actually present.
Sometimes one sees things more clearly years afterwards than one could possibly at the time.
Some things were very beautiful; others sheer nonsense.
Small things were important. Seconds were small things, and if you heaped enough of those on top of one another, they became a man’s life.
Simply from the fact that we have regarded a thing with the emotion of pleasure or pain, though that thing be not the efficient cause of the emotion, we can either love or hate it.
One and the same thing can be at the same time good, bad, and indifferent. For instance, music is good for him that is melancholy, bad for him that mourns; for him that is deaf, it is neither good nor bad.
Matter is plastic in the face of Mind.